Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries [electronic resource] : 8th European Conference, ECDL 2004, Bath, UK, September 12-17, 2004, Proceedings /

Digital Library Architectures -- Dynamic Digital Library Construction and Configuration -- Milos: A Multimedia Content Management System for Digital Library Applications -- Designing an Integrated Digital Library Framework to Support Multiple Heterogeneous Collections -- DSpace: A Year in the Life of an Open Source Digital Repository System -- Evaluation and Usability -- Spatial Ranking Methods for Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) in Digital Libraries -- Evaluation of an Information System in an Information Seeking Process -- Fiction Electronic Books: A Usability Study -- Interoperable Digital Library Programmes? We Must Have QA! -- User Interfaces and Presentation -- Next Generation Search Interfaces – Interactive Data Exploration and Hypothesis Formulation -- Ontology Based Interfaces to Access a Library of Virtual Hyperbooks -- Document Icons and Page Thumbnails: Issues in Construction of Document Thumbnails for Page-Image Digital Libraries -- Citiviz: A Visual User Interface to the CITIDEL System -- New Approaches to Information Retrieval -- System Support for Name Authority Control Problem in Digital Libraries: OpenDBLP Approach -- NLP Versus IR Approaches to Fuzzy Name Searching in Digital Libraries -- From Abstract to Virtual Entities: Implementation of Work-Based Searching in a Multimedia Digital Library -- Approaching the Problem of Multi-lingual Information Retrieval and Visualization in Greek and Latin and Old Norse Texts -- Interoperability -- Building Interoperability for United Kingdom Historic Environment Information Resources -- Prototyping Digital Libraries Handling Heterogeneous Data Sources – The ETANA-DL Case Study -- zetoc SOAP: A Web Services Interface for a Digital Library Resource -- Enhanced Indexing and Searching Methods -- A Comparison of Text and ShapeMatching for Retrieval of Online 3D Models -- Corpus-Based Query Expansion in Online Public Access Catalogs -- Automated Indexing with Restricted Random Walks on Large Document Sets -- Personalisation and Annotation -- Annotations in Digital Libraries and Collaboratories – Facets, Models and Usage -- P-News: Deeply Personalized News Dissemination for MPEG-7 Based Digital Libraries -- Laws of Attraction: In Search of Document Value-ness for Recommendation -- Music Digital Libraries -- Sound Footings: Building a National Digital Library of Australian Music -- Content-Based Retrieval in Digital Music Libraries -- Knowledge-Based Scribe Recognition in Historical Music Archives -- Personal Digital Libraries -- Enhancing Kepler Usability and Performance -- Media Matrix: Creating Secondary Repositories -- Incorporating Physical and Digital Artifacts into Growing Personal Collections -- Innovative Technologies for Digital Libraries -- Enhancing the OpenDLib Search Service -- Multi-level Exploration of Citation Graphs -- Collaborative Querying for Enhanced Information Retrieval -- Open Archives Initiative -- Servicing the Federation: The Case for Metadata Harvesting -- Developing a Technical Registry of OAI Data Providers -- Applying SOAP to OAI-PMH -- New Models and Tools -- Connexions: An Alternative Approach to Publishing -- teiPublisher>: Bridging the Gap Between a Simple Set of Structured Documents and a Functional Digital Library -- Managing a Paradigm Shift – Aligning Management, Privacy Policy, Technology and Standards -- User-Centred Design -- Towards an Integrated Digital Library: Exploration of User Responses to a ‘Joined-Up’ Service -- Supporting Information Structuring in a Digital Library -- Evaluating Strategic Support for Information Access in the DAFFODIL System -- InnovativeTechnologies for Digital Libraries -- Using Digital Library Techniques – Registration of Scientific Primary Data -- Towards Topic Driven Access to Full Text Documents -- Bibliographic Component Extraction Using Support Vector Machines and Hidden Markov Models -- Towards a Policy Language for Humans and Computers.